The rise of the prince

Chapter 647 Changes in the General Trend of the World + Cold Reality
When Li Xingzhou walked out of the injury tent, Wei Yubai was already waiting outside.

She was dressed in a military uniform, with a heroic air: "How is it?"

"It's better, it's nothing serious," he replied.

Di Zhi's face was cut open, and his thighs, shoulders, and back were injured to varying degrees. Fortunately, he survived without infection or fever.

"Wangfu's liquor is really a good thing. I didn't expect it to save so many lives." Wei Yubai said with emotion.

Li Xingzhou also lamented that he brought alcohol.

It is very important for wounds to disappear in time. Many people in the cold weapon era died of wound infections, mainly because they could not kill the bacteria growing on the wounds. With the alcohol of the palace, many injured soldiers of the new army had to survive.

However, the number of casualties still increased from the initial two hundred to 220. In the past few days, there are still people who have not survived. Because of various reasons such as heavy injuries and excessive blood loss, it is not enough to prevent wound infection.

But by now, those who survived have been completely out of danger.

"There are a lot of people drinking secretly." Li Xingzhou couldn't laugh or cry, especially after the war.

The new army seized thousands of cattle and sheep that the Liao army used as food reserves. The Liao army had long-term plans, but they didn't.

So he ate meat, and when he had meat, he wanted wine. Soldiers on the supply ship secretly stole alcohol and mixed it with water for everyone to drink. After Li Xingzhou found out, he punished these people, but he couldn't help it. Man has a paranoid fascination with alcohol, and he is also desperate.
"How does the prince plan to deal with those female relatives? I can't stand it anymore." Wei Yubai asked him as the two walked side by side to the river.

Speaking of this, Li Xingzhou felt a little headache: "I don't know, this bullshit Liao emperor didn't learn well at such a young age. Give it to the meritorious soldiers and give him a daughter-in-law."

Yeludun, the last emperor of the Liao Kingdom, may be one year older than him, and it may only take about a year to sit on the throne temporarily, but the Liao Kingdom has reached this point, and as a result, there are various concubines and maids in his temporary palace. It turned out that there were more than 200 people.
When Yan Shen led people into the city to capture the royal family of the Liao Kingdom, most of them were the kid's harem and young court ladies.

If it was really the imperial palace of the Liao Kingdom, it would not be surprising that there were more than 200 young women, but the Liao Kingdom has only Yanshan Prefecture left, and there are internal and external difficulties. In the autumn of critical survival, the imperial palace is all temporary. Searched so many beauties!

Yelu Dashi worked hard outside, but he would enjoy it in the end, and it's lucky that he didn't get mad.

"This is a rare opportunity. Do you want to include a few? Those are all beauties from the Liao Kingdom. Don't they suit the prince?" Wei Yubai said suddenly.

"Cough cough cough" Li Xingzhou was almost choked to death by saliva. Although he likes women, he is not a moralist, but he has no habit of recruiting women everywhere. It is Cao Mengde who hugs grass and beats rabbits, not him. Besides, the few at home are enough for him took care of.

"No, I don't want it." He waved his hands again and again.

"Hehe, what a great opportunity, isn't the prince a romantic and talented man?" Wei Yubai was still joking.

Li Xingzhou laughed, "Don't tease me, if you bring another one back, there will be no fight at home." If nothing else, Shiyu will definitely be jealous, don't look at her always pretending not to care, but in fact she is very arrogant , the easiest to get jealous.There is also Gillian, Gillian is obedient to him and will not lose her temper, but it is distressing to feel uncomfortable and hold back.

Qiu'er and Yue'er won't disagree, Yue'er has no reservations about him, Qiu'er is another representative of rationalism, she doesn't care about those things, as for He Qian, if she is upset, she will probably come to fight with her directly Yes, but as long as you find a reason to convince her, everything will be fine. After all, she is straightforward and stunned.

Wei Yubai smiled: "My lord really cares about the backyard, aren't you afraid that outsiders will say that you are afraid of the inside?"

He didn't know what to say, but he just remembered a famous saying, "There is no man in this world who is afraid of his wife, only a man who respects his wife. Hahahaha!" After saying that, he couldn't help laughing.

Because he thought of the scene in the movie when Ip Man played by Donnie Yen said this sentence in a serious manner.

Turning around, he found Wei Yubai staring blankly at the river in the distance.

"what happened?"

"Oh, nothing. Looks like someone is coming," she said.

Li Xingzhou raised his head and looked around the distance. Except for the silhouette of the recruits rushing behind him, there was nothing else at all: "Nothing."

"Maybe. I read it wrong." She smiled and said disapprovingly.

But looking back, there is a large group of flags on the horizon on the other side of the river. The big one is the big "Wei" flag. The flag is very familiar, the flag of the Wei family in Guanbei.

The two were taken aback for a moment, and after looking at each other, they hurried to lead the horse and cross the river to pick up the man.

In the second ten days of July, the season of high autumn and crisp air, Wei Chaoren, the governor of the Guanbei Festival, led [-] elite soldiers from the Eastern Route Army to the north to join the new army. In this way, Jingguo could completely control the Yanshan Mansion and stabilize the main throat in the north.

Why is Wei Chaoren's [-] troops needed?The reason is very simple, not only that the new army cannot stay in Yanshan Mansion, but also the same as the relationship between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Before Qin was destroyed, they were comrades-in-arms. The moment Qin was destroyed, they were enemies. This is politics.

It's a pity that Xiang Yu didn't have such a clear understanding. He didn't realize the changes in the relationship between the enemy and ourselves, which made him miss many opportunities.

Xiang Yu didn't, but Li Xingzhou did. Before Liao was destroyed, Jin and Jing could be allies. The moment Liao fell meant that Jin was Jing's biggest enemy in the north!

The general situation of the world has changed, and compared to the Liao Kingdom, the enemy of the Jin Kingdom is obviously more terrifying. The Wanyan Wugunai who beat up the Liao Kingdom in two or three years is much more difficult to deal with than the little boy Yelu Dun who kowtowed to him and begged for mercy up.

Now that the Jin army occupies Juyongguan and Shanhaiguan to the west and north of Yanshan Mansion, this city has become the front line of the confrontation between the Jing Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, and it must be heavily guarded to be at ease.

After Wei Chaoren met him, he spoke and trembled with excitement until he entered Yanshan City, and when he stood on the top of Yanshan Mansion, the veteran couldn't control his emotions, and suddenly hugged the battlements and burst into tears.

Wei Yubai hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her father, but the old man kept touching the bricks and cried for a long time without saying a word.

Li Xingzhou felt a little emotional when he saw it. In later generations, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never be able to understand the hardship and oppression of people in this era.

Wei Chaoren guarded Guanbei for decades. He didn't know how many brothers under his command died at the hands of the Liao people. Both sides shed too much blood for this hundred-year-long, multi-generational conflict.

Now that one day he took down the last city of the Liao Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom declared its demise, it is understandable for him to lose control of his emotions. It is useless for anyone to comfort him at such a time.
After crying for a long time, Wei Chaoren wanted to kneel down and thank Li Xingzhou, but he was hurriedly stopped, but he was still so excited that Wei Yubai took him around the Yanshan Mansion. After hundreds of years, he finally returned to the place. In the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty, the old general was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

The next day, Wei Chaoren's army began to hand over the city defenses to the new army. The Guanbei Army was also curious about a legendary army that broke through Weizhou, Anding, and defeated the elite of the Liao army. very.

The new army is indeed incompatible with the army of this era, whether it is equipped with good equipment or tactics.

On the other side, Wei Yubai proudly told his father about various things about the new army. Wei Chaoren sometimes frowned, sometimes sighed, and finally turned into an exclamation.

Especially after Wei Yubai accompanied him to watch the new army board the ship and watch the firepower ship of the new army, he repeatedly felt that he was getting old.

Xiao Hongqi and his party also came back the next day, but their expressions were a bit strange, because they thought it was difficult to talk this time, but the Jinjun of Juyongguan prepared wine and meat to entertain them, and they were friendly. Regarding his conditions, Prince Wanyanli of Liao Kingdom did not reply. , but also said that he made the decision and would report it to his father as soon as possible.

Over the past few years, the consecutive victories and the surrender of the four sides have already given the Jin people a sense of pride that the Kingdom of Jin is invincible. They are extremely arrogant, and what they thought were difficult to say suddenly became easier to say.

Even Xiao Hongqi himself was dumbfounded, he didn't expect such a courtesy, no matter what, it was a good thing, at least the beginning was smooth.

Li Xingzhou heaved a sigh of relief, the recent things seemed to be going according to his plan, more and more smoothly, more and more according to the plan.

The news of the North's victory came a few days later than the news from the palace, but what should come will always come, and the first to get the news is still the court, and all changes have also started from the court.

Originally, in the past few days, six officials, led by Meng Zhiye, Cheng Jin and others, were surrounding the prince, ready to impeach King Pingnan at any time.

For this reason, they often gather in the stockade east of Chengjin City, the reason why they are there is because it is close to the Crown Prince's East Palace, so it is convenient for the Crown Prince to come in and out.

They discussed several ways to impeach King Pingnan, and even prepared a memorial in secret early on, and compared it over and over again to see whose one is more brilliant. If it is written well, it may not only be impeachment, but also become a good story in history, which will be passed down through the ages , so the memorial must be well written.

It needs to hit the point, the diction is decent, and the expression is precise. For this reason, everyone scrapped and wrote, and wrote and scrapped, chewing on words, citing scriptures, one impeachment incident after another, making it seem like a big event in the world, and everyone still looks solemn. A little bit of slack means doing everything in style.

Cheng Jin has only entered the high-level officialdom not long ago, so he is somewhat confused. Is this necessary?Even he wants to say it's too pedantic
But Meng Zhiye reminded him, this is for the prince to see!
In fact, it doesn’t matter who does this matter, as long as King Pingnan is defeated, it’s not a problem to overthrow him, so how to get the prince to remember his kindness on the head of Liubu is naturally to pretend that it’s difficult, and make it difficult if it’s not difficult. At least it looks difficult.

The prince is less wise, he has not really experienced any real things, so he is easily drawn into it, so he believes it.

Cheng Jin thought it was absurd at first, could he really be a fool for the prince?

Unexpectedly, after such a few times, the prince was grateful to these six ministers, and praised them again and again as the humerus of the country.
He was silent for a long time, and in the end he had to admire Meng Zhiye's boldness.

Everything is ready, only owed to Dongfeng, things have already been fully prepared, just waiting for the news of the defeat.

After Yang Hongzhao and others returned to Beijing, the emperor was furious and the public sentiment was raging, so he ordered Yang Hongzhao to be dismissed from the post of commander in front of the palace, the commander of Tong Guan's guards and infantry, and asked the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and Yushitai to handle the matter. Since Yang Hongzhao, Tong Guan and others were to be severely punished without saving face.

Yang Hongzhao and Tong Guan were suspended at home for the time being, waiting for the trial. During this period, they also came to the prince to intercede, but they were refused an interview. They suggested that Meng Zhiye came out, so they should not be involved at this time, so as not to be implicated.

Although the lives and deaths of Yang Hongzhao, Tong Guan and others were ignored, the defeat of the two is a great thing. This matter created momentum, and now the people are in a rage. Please the emperor severely punish the two, and the emperor also acted impartially and showed no mercy.

With this precedent, when the news of King Pingnan's defeat came, the emperor would not be able to take sides. Otherwise, everyone in the world would see it. Why should Yang Hongzhao and Tong Guan's defeat be dealt with severely, but not King Pingnan?
Therefore, they also encouraged the prince to make repeated admonitions, asking the emperor to severely punish Yang Hongzhao and others. The more severe the punishment, the lower the bottom line left for King Pingnan.

Everything should have been going well, until that night, Cheng Jin read a book as usual and was about to go to bed. Just as he was on the collapse, he heard a dog barking outside the door, followed by someone speaking vaguely.

Could it be that there are guests visiting?

It's so late at night, how can there be anyone.

He had no choice but to put on his shoes again and get out of bed, then opened the door and asked, "What's going on outside?"

"My lord, it's the news from an informant in the palace!" A guard whispered across the wall of the courtyard.

Cheng Jin was taken aback, news from the palace?

They bribed some young eunuchs in the palace, and would bring them news from the palace from time to time, but this evening
He vaguely felt that the news might be important, so he went to open the door, and the loyal servant of the family came in after opening the door, Cheng Jin turned sideways to let him in, and closed the door carefully.

Then he asked, "What's the news from the palace?"

"My lord, the little eunuch just came to the palace, and he sneaked away to say it just after he was replaced." The eunuchs and maids did not live in the palace as people imagined, but outside the palace, and they came into the palace to change shifts sooner or later.

"What the hell did he say?"

"He said. He said that the emperor ordered Pingnan King to be the Prince of Jin this evening!" the servant whispered excitedly.

"What? What did you say? Say it again!" Cheng Jin couldn't believe his ears.

"Today's evening, the emperor issued a decree to confer the title of King Pingnan as the Prince of Jin!" The servant said again, this time with a much louder voice.

"It's true!"

"Really, sir!"

Cheng Jin stayed where he was, closed his eyes for a long time, then slowly opened them, constantly digesting the weight of the news in his heart, digesting and digesting, like a sharp-edged stone rolling in his heart, unable to calm down for a long time.

After a while, he opened his eyes and said excitedly: "Old man, old man is going to enter the palace, and old man is going to face the saint!"

"My lord, my lord!" The servant quickly stopped him: "No, lord! It's night now, the emperor should go to bed long ago."

"This is unfair! This is not right!" He shook his head and said excitedly, "Why should I be named Pingnan King!"

"Master" loyal servants stopped him desperately, and said helplessly, "Master! I'm afraid... Maybe King Pingnan won the battle."

Cheng Jin suddenly lost his strength and was speechless for a long time. In fact, when he heard the news for the first time, he vaguely thought, but he couldn't believe it in his heart, dared not admit it, why did he win?How could it be possible to win, such a battle, such a situation, how could it be possible to win!
But after all, he had to give up thinking about the unimaginable reality, and turned to face the reality before him. Early the next morning, the emperor added the news that King Pingnan was the Prince of Jin, and with him defeating the Liao army and capturing Nanjing City, The news of the capture of the Liao royal family began to spread wildly.

Like Cheng Jin, many people were caught off guard and thrown into the bloody abyss, and had to face the cold reality that they never even thought about.
(End of this chapter)